The
LTI colloquium is a series of talks related to language technologies. The
topics include but are not restricted to Computational Linguistics, Machine
Translation, Speech Recognition and Synthesis, Information Retrieval, Computational
Biology, Machine Learning, Text Mining, Knowledge Representation,
Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Intelligent Language Tutoring. To get
credit of the course, students are required to write either a short critique of
one of the presentations or a comparison of two.
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Time: |
Fridays 2:30-3:50pm |
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Location: |
7500 Wean Hall |
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Instructor: |
Bhiksha Raj, bhiksha (at) cs.cmu.edu |
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TA: |
Pallavi Baljekar, pbaljeka (at) cs.cmu.edu |
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May 3rd, Friday, 2:30pm Krishna Bharat Google Research
Google News: Helping Billions Access News About ten years ago I started a research project at Google to organize all of the world's news content by story and rank stories algorithmically. This required a brand new approach to indexing and ranking real time content, and was turned into a product called GoogleNews. Since then Google News has grown to 72 editions in 30 languages, and now draws from more than 50,000 news sources. The technology also powers Google’s news search. Together, they connect 1 billion unique users a week to news content. In this talk I will describe the history of the product, and discuss the technologies and challenges underlying Google News. Also, some of our practical learnings and directions for future research
Bio: Krishna Bharat is a Distinguished Research Scientist at Google and founder of Google News, working in the area of Web search and computational journalism. He joined Google in 1999 and helped start the research group. Google News won the 2003 Webby Award in thenews category, and Dr. Bharat received the 2003 World Technology Award for Media & Journalism. In 2004 he founded Google’s R&D operations in India and served as the center’s first director until 2006. Before joining Google in 1999, he was a member of the research staff at DEC Systems Research Center in Palo Alto. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology. |
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Jan 18 |
Izhak Shafran |
Florian Metze |
Assessment of Social Engagement and Cognitive Function for Studying
Aging |
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Jan 25 |
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Feb 1 |
Wei Tong |
Alex Hauptman |
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Feb 8 |
Dan Ellis |
Florian Metze |
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Feb 15 |
John R. Hershey |
John McDonough |
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Feb 22 |
Alex Smola |
Yiming Yang |
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March 1 |
Josh McDermott |
Bhiksha Raj |
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March 8 |
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March 15 |
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March 22 |
Chenxiang Zhai |
Jamie Callan |
Axiomatic Analysis and Optimization of Information Retrieval Models |
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March 29 |
Julia Hockenmaier |
Noah Smith |
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April 5 |
Carolyn Rose |
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Summarization of Behavior Trajectories in Online Health Support Groups |
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April 12 |
David Traum |
Florian Metze |
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April 19 |
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April 26 |
Marta Recasens |
Ed Hovy |
Taking Coreference Resolution beyond the 60% Performance Barrier |
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May 3 |
Krishna Bharat |
Bhiksha Raj |
video up on black board (against company policy to share the slides and video publicly). |
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